It all started when I was her. A three-year old, deep-thinking philosopher. I over-analyzed everything... and I still do. My parent's were both public educators who devoted much more to their job than ever required. If you're not a teacher or the child of a teacher, it's truly hard for me to explain to you just what all our public educators do. They ALWAYS brought their work home with them. A planning period was never enough time to get everything done that they needed to. I used to lay in the living room floor every Sunday night with my Dad as he worked on his lesson plans for the week. It all started then. Before I could even read and write I was a planner.
Last January when I started on my New Year's Resolutions I planned to blog more. Then, my birthday rolled around mid-summer and I realized I hadn't posted more than a handful of times. This year my New Year's Resolutions are to basically live a better life. In my mind, that includes doing more of what I enjoy (blogging included), exercising more and studying the bible on a regular basis. I decided if I am really going to tackle this blogging thing I'm going to have to have a plan. The more thought I put into it... the more I realized that I'm not alone. I was sure there had to be tons of 'bloggers' out there who had the same plans for the new year. Being the planner I am... I planned.
I wanted to involve more people so I made a Journal Agenda with writing prompts for each week of 2013 and introduced it to my FOLK Family. Each Monday I will be blogging over on the FOLKblog with the entry that corresponds to the prompt of the week. Each post will include a Linky Party for bloggers to link-up their own posts in response to the prompt. A community journaling/blogging project. This should be fun!
January's Journal Agenda prompts are as follows:
The first entry is live and there are several bloggers already linked-up. Join me!
Sounds like a plan! lol, enjoy reading your post! I'm now a follower...
ReplyDeleteGlad to have you Lorrie! Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteLove it!!! Thanks so much for the Journaling Agenda! I LOVE it!! Although I wasn't a teacher's child, I was a teacher. I just quit after 13 years, and everything you said above is so true! I wish people fully understood what the life a teacher looks like. All they see is the time off, but what they don't know is that a teacher is never truly off... they work ALL the time! Anyways... loved reading a little about you this morning!! Hugs!!! Claire
ReplyDeleteI hope to join you on some of these. I too am a list maker then I doodle on the list and can't read what I wrote...so I make a new list.Then most of the time as I'm heading out the door I realize I've lost my final list...Ah yes the life of a Nanaw with A.D.D. :->
ReplyDeleteHi Hilary...I'm the Holly from the umpteen subscriptions to Folk!!!
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog, actually from the Folk blog, and have read through about 6 posts so far.
Can I just say what an amazing young woman you are??? I Was impressed dealing with you business wise, but, girl? you have a lot going on! Your bucket list was most impressive! (I just have a bucket and some lists...lol!!) When you wrote of joining the DAR I couldn't help but think of the Gilmore Girls (favorite show!)
Thank you for sharing so much of your life, and for the wonderful information about the Miss America Pageant. Hoping you'll have the winning sash soon!
Will be adding you to my sidebar...you're very inspirational!!!